Everyday words
Songs
Start with Genesis 31:27, where the Bible uses the word songs in a real sentence: “Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn’t tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 31:27
“Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn’t tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp;”
2. 1 Kings 4:32
“He spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs numbered one thousand five.”
3. 1 Chronicles 13:8
“David and all Israel played before God with all their might, even with songs, with harps, with stringed instruments, with tambourines, with cymbals, and with trumpets.”
4. 1 Chronicles 16:42
“and with them Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for those that should sound aloud, and with instruments for the songs of God; and the sons of Jeduthun to be at the gate.”
5. Nehemiah 12:46
“For in the days of David and Asaph of old there was a chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving to God.”
6. Job 35:10
“But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,”
7. Psalms 32:7
“You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah.”
8. Psalms 65:8
“They also who dwell in faraway places are afraid at your wonders. You call the morning’s dawn and the evening with songs of joy.”
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Practice Genesis 31:27
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Whydidyoufleesecretly,andme,anddidn’ttellme,thatIhavesentyouawaywithmirthandwithwithtambourineandwithharp;